Excellent article by a world-reknowned expert on trauma http://bit.ly/n2fFBb
POST Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is not an illness or indication of “LMF” – low moral fibre – as was once believed. Instead, it’s a natural reaction to a highly abnormal event, says Professor Gordon Turnbull. “PTSD seemed to have so many different types of manifestation. After everything I’d seen, I couldn’t possibly describe it as an illness. All my research, all my years of clinical experience, had led me to believe it was a survival tool; perhaps our ultimate survival tool.”
